Post-Modern Still-life Paintings

Darius Yektai was born in Southampton, NY, in 1973. He lives and works out of his home and studio in Sag Harbor. He grew up in a cultural home of art and artists, with his Greek-Amer...

Original and unique artwork by Hunt Slonem. Oil on wood Painting is framed, as seen in the images. Dimensions of the artwork with the frame: 40,64 x 35,56 cm Signed Verso Please not...

"The Barn" is a post modern oil on panel painting. It depicts a barn full of tools and equipment. More tools and equipment can be viewed on the ground outside through the doors. Fr...

"Bottles in Swimming Pool " is a contemporary still-life monotype cyanotype portraying a kitchen scene. This is a unique piece made by layering paper cutouts and different exposures ...

Here for consideration is a richly painted in a thick impasto technique; a vibrant and stylized vase overflowing with poppies and sunflowers. Signed by the artist Edith E. Ferullo lower right “Ferullo” and dated 1974. Condition of the painting is excellent. The painting is housed in a period burnt orange period wood frame in fine condition. Overall framed measurements are 31 by 16 inches. Provenance: A Ellenton, Florida collector. Edith E. Ferullo was born in 1928 and is known for her mid century and post modern paintings...

Is NOT is a present day vanitas still life. A meditation on the ephemerality of life and the things we hold dear. The fragility of the statement "time is not money" is represented in...

"Lovely Mary Jane" is a Post-Modern painting inspired by The Bluest Eye by Toni Morison. Lovely Mary Jane is a candy wrapper, taped to a blue wall. It’s trash, glorified. But this is not a political statement about commercialism or recycling. This painting was inspired by one of the top 10 banned books across the country, Toni Morrison’s “The Bluest Eye” which is about a young black girl who wishes she had blue eyes, an envy shaped from her love of her favorite candy, Mary Jane. It’s a heartbreaking notion caused by an ideal of beauty perpetuated by a marketing campaign for a sweet treat. Classical painting also hails a certain ideal of beauty… and one wouldn’t usually find something as insignificant as a candy wrapper as the focal point of their pièce de résistance. However, Mastromatteo is asking us to see that here is power in idealization, especially in something so seemingly throwaway. He’s prodding us to be more aware…to make people aware of the significance of the seemingly insignificant. The one power an artist possesses is that of forcing the viewer to look at something of his choosing…and in this case he’s asking us to look at something that may be garbage. Consider Maurizio Cattelan, whom in 2019 taped a banana to the wall with duct tape, and it later sold for $120,000…art forces the viewer to consider something that everyone is telling you to look at. Mastromatteo’s candy wrapper is taped up to the wall in a similar fashion as Cattelan’s banana…if we look long enough at the tape, we’ll notice it’s resemblance to the “not-equal” sign...

"The Three Body Problem" is a pink comic book trompe l'oeil of a famous physics phenomenon. Mastromatteo creates a meditation on the "Three Body Pr...

French Mid-century oil on board still life by French artist Louis André Cabane. The painting is signed and dated bottom right and presented in a fine Montparnasse frame. The artist has also dated, numbered and titled the painting 'Fleurs au pot vert' to the reverse. A wonderfully energetic and vibrant painting of a green vase of wild flowers with bottles, condiments and fruit. Although muted, the green, orange, red and yellow are intensely deep and well balanced. The forms of the subject are imbued with great energy due to the thick application of paint. The brushstrokes are deep, quick and confident. Some elements of the painting are reminiscent of Van Gogh's swirling skies. A painting to both capture and hold your attention...

The blue bottle. 2017. Oil on wooden plywood. 35x30 cm

Oil on artist canvas board by the well known artist Nicolas Cikovsky of a vibrant floral bouquet. Signed lower right. Condition is very good. The painting is housed in its original frame. Overall framed measurements are 21.75 by 17.5 inches Landscape and figure painter Nicolai S. Cikovsky, 1894-1984, was born in Russia, where he studied at the Vilna Art School, 1910-1914; the Penza Royal Art School, 1914-1918; and Moscow High Tech Art...

Oil on canvas original painting of a bouquet of roses by the well known American artist, Moses Soyer. Circa 1960. Signed top right. Condition is excellent. Framed in a new contempo...